At the end of the term， our ethics（伦理学） professor gave us a test． He had told us （1） （expect）one and had warned us it would be included in the final grade．
The test began． Sure enough， I was （2） confident that I finished all the questions after forty （3） （minute）except the very last one： What is the name of the woman who cleans the lecture hall？
I thought it was（4） joke． I'd seen the woman many times． She'd been working in the building for at least a year． She is short （5） dark hair， in her fifties， and we'd even smiled at each other once or twice． But I didn't know （6） （she）name because I'd never thought to ask her． I handed in my test and the last question （7） （leave）unanswered﹣hoping the final result wouldn't be influenced to（8） （bad）because of it． But then one student put up his hand． He hadn't finished the test， （9） ．"I' m just wondering，" he said．" Will it really change my grade if I don't complete that last question？"
" Certainly， " our professor（10） （smile）．" In your future jobs，…"
I've never forgotten that lesson．I also learned that the cleaner's name was Sherry．
While being on my year abroad， I have tried to collect small things such as train tickets， postcards， and I have been taking lots of photographs． Living in（1） （法国）， I take the metro（地铁） every day． I have my own personalized map on which I have（2） （圈出） all of my favorite restaurants， cafes， parks and other places． I have even colored it to say if these places have（3） （免费的） wi﹣fi or lunch deals． What I plan to do with all these things is making a scrap book．
For those of you who have never heard of the word" scrap book"， it's an（4） （空的） book which people usually take away with them on holiday， and fill it with "scraps" of paper， tickets， maps， （5） （邮票）， photographs etc． It is like a memory book． You will always have the memories of your favorite places and why you liked them so much， all in your scrap book! It is really（6） （有价值的） to own it if you ever want to（7） （回到） to that place． My scrap book started in September and after eight months was （8） （几乎） full!
Why not create a scrap book of your time while traveling？ Isn't it nice to be able to open a book of your life and time（9） （作为） a traveler？ You can't imagine how happy you can be by just looking at an old ticket with a special （10） （日期） on， or a napkin from your favorite restaurant． It's the little things that can make you．
This is Tammela School， a primary school in Finland． The students are having a math class with their robot teacher．
The "teacher" is（1） small， blue machine about 25cm high， Reuters reported．Whenever students have problems， it helps them very（2） （patient） and never gets bored．
"The robot can make students（3） （active） in class than usual． I see Elias as one of the （4） （tool） to get different kinds of practice and activities into the classroom，" a teacher told Reuters．
So far the school（5） （introduce） four robot teachers， one of whom is a language teacher that can speak 23 languages and dance to music．" （6） is necessary to encourage kids to come up（7） new ways to make use of technology in school life，" the head of the school （8） （add） in the interview．
The robot teachers are used（9） （help） improve learning． This doesn't mean that human teachers will lose their jobs． The robots can teach well， （10） they are not able to keep class in order． The school still needs human teachers．
Curt von Badinski is an engineer of a company in San Francisco． （1） （然而）， his home is in Los Angeles， which is 770（2） （英里） away from his workplace， so he has to take a plane work and back．
Every workday morning， von Badinski gets up at 5 a．m． for the 15﹣minute drive to the airport． After（3） （停放） his car， he goes straight to take the plane． After a 90﹣ minute flight， he（4） （着陆） at Oakland Airport and drives to his company． The（5） （整个的） trip takes him about 3 hours．
Von Badinski pays the airline 2,300 dollars monthly so that he can fly（6） （自由地） at any time to and from San Francisco．
Flying to work every day is not（7） （容易的） for von Badinski because he can only sleep five hours every night， but he believes（8） （没有什么） could be more important to him than his family． He had thought about several ways to solve the problem， （9） （包括） moving his family to San Francisco， but none of them worked．
"The six﹣hour round trip shows that I have the（10） （能力） to have all the things I want． "he explains．" I am always excited to start a new day．"
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Florence Nightingale was a nurse who saved many people in the 19th century． She was named after the city of Florence in Italy．
Florence was （1） unusual young woman for her time， because she didn't want to go to parties and get married． She wanted to be a nurse and help people． Her family （2） （not） want her to become because a nurse because hospitals back then were dirty， horrible places．
（3） the age of thirty﹣one， Florence went to Germany and learned all about nursing． It was hard work，（4） she loved it．
In 1854， lots of British soldiers went to fight in the Crimean War． Army hospitals were filled with injured people， but there（5） （be） no nurses and many soldiers died． Florence and a team of nurses went to help．
Florence worked 20 hours a day to make the hospital a （6） （clean） and safer place． She brought fresh food，she cleaned the beds and she used clean bandages on the wounded soldiers． Soon， fewer （7） （man） were dying．
At night， Florence talked to the injured soldiers and helped them （8） （write） letters to their families．They called her "the lady with the lamp"， （9） she always carried a lamp．
When Florence returned to England， people called her a hero． Queen Victoria wrote her a letter to say thanks．She（10） （give） the honor（荣誉）﹣Order of Merit， becoming the first woman to receive it．
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